Obama

Cartoonist’s note: This is not how the conversation went–but a guy can dream.… Read the rest
Read Tom Philpott’s article on Grist, for more information on Monsanto’s latest victory: USDA moves to let Monsanto perform its own environmental impact studies on GMOs

For those unfamiliar with the work of Wendell Berry (and for those familiar who may need a little refresher), he is David to the agribusiness Goliath. Berry works tirelessly to promote proper land stewardship, sustainability, and conservation and uses every opportunity to point out the drastic short-sightedness of our current… Read the rest

When President Obama took office, he rightly stated that in a speech before the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service “For more than three decades, the Endangered Species Act has successfully protected our nation’s most threatened wildlife, and we should be looking for ways to improve it — not weaken it.”… Read the rest

I read a Tom Friedman piece a while ago that talked about how different stories in a single day of news related to one another. Yesterday this concept hit me as I read through one day’s New York Times. Look at these separate, yet very related, news stories.

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Obama will open large sections of Southeast and Alaskan coasts to offshore drilling
Follow Mean Joe Green (Joe Mohr) at JoeMohrToons.com and on Twitter at @GreenCartoons…… Read the rest

The Obama Administration announced today that it is forming a new agency dedicated to studying global warming. With a rapidly warming planet, polar melting, rising sea levels and all of that other nasty stuff that climate change promises to offer, Obama has expressed concern for America to become a leader… Read the rest

Regardless of the fact that China is not convinced about the causes of climate change and the human role, they are leading in the switch to clean energy. According to the New York Times, the country is the the world’s largest producer of wind turbines and solar panels.
During President… Read the rest

According to the Guardian… Read the rest, a leaked UN report shows that global temperatures will still rise by an average of 3C with the emission cuts that have been offered in Copenhagen. While a rise in 2C–which Obama planned to offer–would have serious consequences (more droughts, more floods, and a decline

When he heard that Barack Obama was coming to China, talented hairdresser Huang Xin knew just how to welcome him: by making a miniature Obama sculpture out of human hair, of course.
The mini Obama, which will also not be attending the climate convention in Copenhagen, was made using four… Read the rest

For years now, federal agencies — most recently under the direction of the Bush administration — have done and said some pretty absurd things when it comes to restoring salmon in the Pacific Northwest’s Columbia-Snake River Basin.  Instead of taking a hard look at the science, the law, and the … Read the rest